Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland are gone So are Santa Claus and the Land of Oz And all of my boyhood dreams. Just watched Rudolph again The adults were all complicit in destroying That young bright queer Reindeer's dreams. Donner was a narcissist, Comet a grown bully Rudolph had to leave and grow up on…Read more Christmas Reflections
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Random thoughts
I have to do random thoughts tonight. The class I'm taking this semester is Digital Cultures. Who the &*$* knew that before the semester was over, we'd all be living in a digital culture? Where our computers and our smartphones are the only things keeping us all connected? It's surreal. A few years ago, I…Read more Random thoughts
The Catholic Hierarchy and the Lost Trans Sheep
I have been swamped with my job for the last several weeks. While I was out on a work trip, I received a text from my friend Sister Luisa, exhorting me to read my email and respond as quickly as I could. I was in the middle of things, and filed it away to do…Read more The Catholic Hierarchy and the Lost Trans Sheep
Connection Time
I've spent some time in the last few weeks traveling around the country visiting family and "framily" - friends who qualify as family, without the blood relation connection. Some of the reasons I've had for going is to see the younger people; seeing my best-longest-term (not "oldest") friend's little boys, ages 6 and meeting the…Read more Connection Time
Musings in Twilight 